Category: Technology
We’ve had out family iPad for some time now and whilst it truly is a ‘magical’ device it still falls a little short of being the perfect family computer. For many the iPad is a ‘personal’ device but for others it serves as a ‘shared’ device. Ours is used by all members of the family and often found in the lounge on the coffee table, or in the kitchen, or in one of the kids bedrooms!
What the iPad (or more specifically iOS) really lacks is multi user accounts though. Both my wife and I use the iPad a fair bit – I’d love to be able to check my mail on it but that means giving 3 young children access to my work mail account (hmmm!). By the same token the girls hate having to wade through screen after screen of ‘boy games’ and well myself and my wife can’t both be signed into Facebook at the same time.
The iPad is a social device which lends itself naturally to being shared, here’s hoping Apple makes more of this in a future software update! :)
I was foolish enough to buy a Blu-ray player a few years back, how many times have I used it? Probably 3 or 4 times in the space of more than a year. It’s not that I don’t like watching movies, but the user experience with Blu-ray is nothing short of terrible. Khoi Vinh sums my thoughts up perfectly in his post Blu-ray Blues, the comments are well worth a read also – especially if you were ever an advocate of HD-DVD.
Yes, that’s right. I’ve got Joost invites. Want me to hook you up? Leave a suitably amusing comment and your wish will be granted. :)
Update: I’ve been inundated with requests for invites so bear with me. It may take a day or two for me to process your request.
Update: I’ve turned off comments for now as I’m a bit snowed under and unable to deal with all the requests that keep pouring in. I think a few people suggested alternative sources for invites in the comments below, so best of luck with your search!
Having just read through a really rather good interview over at Ars Technica I was astounded by following statement made by Ben Kuchera:
There is no real difference in quality based on what I’ve seen between HD DVD (Xbox 360) and Blu-ray (PS3). Keep in mind that unless your display can handle a 1080p or 1080i resolution the PS3 will downgrade the image into 480p.
What? That is some crazy shit. To quote one of the commenter’s on the article:
It blows my mind that Sony put the Blu-ray drive into the PS3 as a trojan horse that I’m forced to pay for, but it can’t even support my 720P (Sony!) HD television…
I’d be interested to hear from anyone out there with a PS3 as to what experience they have with playback of Blu-ray movies on a 720p HDTV.
Well, we’ve certainly had a fair share of hoax images of recent in the run up to Apple’s 30th Birthday on the 1st of April, but for me this has to be either the most impressive hoax so far, or the real thing.
Somehow I doubt it’s the real thing, since when did leaked photos of upcoming products ever make it out of Apple in the past? One things for sure though, this is certainly what everyone and their dog wants? It will be interesting to see if Apple can deliver on the dream.
